Improvement in cupboard-catches



W. I. MYRIGK.

Cupboard-Catches.

Patented Feb.17.1874.

I NVENTDR VVlTN Ess Es -EJ'NITED STATES ATENT QFFICE.

IWILLIAM J. MYRIOK, OF BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN CUPBOARD-CATCHES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 147,515, dated February 17, 1874; application led October 20,1873.

`the catch, it being fastened to the face of the door by screws, A B being the line of the joint between the door and the jamb, the cap a serving as a handle with which to open the door.

Fig. 2 shows a section on the line X Y of Fig. 1, having the wood-work of the door removed, thus showing` the catch c and its case b, attached to the door-jainb by screws. The

catch c is held to its place in the case b by the pin f, allowing c to work up and down readily. Fig. 3 is a top view, showing1 the catch in dotted lines, d being the door7 and e the jamb.

The dotted lines show concealed parts. The door being pushed shut, the catch c is thrown up; and when the door is fully to its place, the catch c drops, and the door is held by the barb on the catch taking hold of the plate a on the lower part of the cap a, which plate extends up under the projecting portion. of the cap a. The catch c is doublelm'rbed, so that it may be used either on a right or left hand door.

In opening the door, the fingers are thrust up under the cap a, and, Striking against the catch c, it is thrown up until it no longer re tains a hold on the plate af, when the door may readily be drawn open by means of the cap a.

I claim as my invention- The double-barbed reversible catch c, attached to the door-jalnb, in combination with the cap a and its plate a, secured to the door, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

VILLIAM J. MYRIOK.

Witnesses:

CHARLES W. Looms, B. N. LooMIs. 

